Poultry by-products and rainbow trout (Onchorhynchus mykiss) viscera are abundant and underutilized resources that can be used as a unique protein source to make protein hydrolysates. In this study protein hydrolysate were made from these two different sources with Alcalase 2.4L. The functional properties of Fish viscera protein hydrolysate (FPH) compared to poultry by-products protein hydrolys...

“Everything that is visible has certain colour-properties” (Katz, 1911, p. 1). In this chapter we first discuss the structure and perceptual dimensions that are inherent to the attribute of colour itself. We then consider the strong organisational influence that colour can have on scenes, before considering the interplay of colour, form, depth and movement, to the extent that these interactions...

In this paper the effect of heat and ammonia treatment on the change in colour of oak wood (Quercus robur) and comparison of physical and mechanical properties were investigated. Wood specimens were made from heartwood and sapwood in dimensions 30×30×30 mm3. The specimens were subjected to heat treatment at 180oC and 230oC for 2 and 4 hours, others were treated by ammonia for 24 hours. After th...

In this paper, we describe the application of an adaptive fuzzy clustering algorithm to the segmentation of colour biomedical images. In comparison to traditional colour image segmentation algorithms, the advantage of this algorithm is intelligent location of a range of chosen colours (ROC) based on a manually selected reference colour. The colours within the ROC have similar colour properties ...

A cylindrical coordinate colour space (lightness, saturation/chroma, hue) is derived from an opponent colour space in the RGB space. It is shown how cylindrical coordinate colour models widely used in the literature are related to or can be reduced to the derived model, thereby contributing to creating a unified cylindrical coordinate colour model. In particular, the widely used saturation expr...

Introduction Colour is a distinctive feature that can vastly simplify visual search for objects. However, some form of colour constancy is needed to cope with unknown lighting conditions. Unfortunately, current computer vision colour constancy algorithms generally make restrictive assumptions about illumination conditions and/or require significant computational resources. We propose a computer...

Diamond is an attractive material for photonic quantum technologies because its colour centres have a number of outstanding properties, including bright single photon emission and long spin coherence times. To take advantage of these properties it is favourable to directly fabricate optical microcavities in high-quality diamond samples. Such microcavities could be used to control the photons em...

A fully automatic colour texture editing method is proposed, which allows to synthesise and enlarge an artificial texture sharing anticipated properties from its parent textures. The edited colour texture maintains its original colour spectrum while its frequency is modified according to one or more target template textures. Edited texture is synthesised using a fast recursive model-based algor...